Removing Valve Cover

[anchovies]

Spray the whole thing then sand off with very find sand paper. I think it's 360 grit.

[Project-LXi]

When you sand it down, be VERY VERY careful not to hit other parts of the valve cover! its harder than it might look, take it from me, I messed up mine the first time around.

Second time around I ended up using a razorblade to shave off the paint from the parts I wanted silver, then ground it down with fine grit sanding block to give it a nice looking metallic finish, Id post a pic but I dont have a scanner or a digicam.

[dXsquared]

definetly use a block to sand on... i polished my H and shit to a chrome b4 i painted the cover so all i used was a bit of paint thinner every coat and it turned out nice... i can polish any aluminium to a chorme shine very easily... i have an aluminum steer wheel for my car and it came like plain aluminum and now it is polished!!!

Travis

[Jims 86LXI HB]

Originally posted by doug
Jim,
I certainly hope you used a high temp/solvent resistent clear on that cover.

Yes I sure did. And I only handle it throughout the painting process after I've washed my hands to keep oil from my fingers from ever touching it and I wash the cover several times during the process. Before the undercoat and the first color coat I wipe it down with a special PP&G cleaner to absolutely get ride of any oil or anthing else. And I do not apply each layer of paint until the previous layer has had time to cure and disapate solvent's, which can be spead up in a low temp oven. Their's no way that paint is ever comming off.